i found love at the anthill museum

my baby loves me so much he has entrapped me inside several Birds

had a dream that nine inch nails released a new version of closer called closer 2 and the lyrics were changed to be like "I want to go to therapy like an animal / I feel emotions on the inside" (you get the idea) and pitchfork praised it for being really thoughtful and in touch with gentle non-toxic masculinity

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

the "empathy fatigue" stuff is also very revealing because when you examine health professionals' self-reporting on the matter there is a specific type of person they describe losing empathy for- unsurprisingly, it's people with particularly chronic health issues and disability, drug users, people who "refuse to take care of themselves" and especially anyone with a health condition perceived to be "their own fault". very often what they describe as "empathy fatigue" is actually just the mask slipping on the seething contempt they already held

artists on the internet will make the most half assed image that says "fuck ice" in a font that someone else made and then be like "stickers and prints on my etsy that will be five dollars please."